Re: Encrypted Media proposal (was RE: ISSUE-179: av_param - Chairs Solicit Alternate Proposals or Counter-Proposals)

This a lengthy proposal that is not directly related to the general issue
of interchanging decoding and/or protocol parameters between author and
user agent for the purpose of performing audio and/or video playback.

Could you point out the specific elements of the proposal that deals with
such parameter interchange? If this proposal offers an alternative
mechanism to perform such interchange, then is that mechanism suitable for
purposes not related to encrypted media playback?

Regards,
Glenn

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We have been collaborating on an API to enable encrypted media in HTML
> that we think
> can be implemented in all browsers and support any container/codec and
> content
> encryption solution without making major changes to the HTML Media element
> specification. We think it solves most use cases without being overly
> large or
> complex.
>
> We'd like to get people's feedback on the proposal. It is posted here:
>
> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-media/encrypted-media.html
>
> Many content providers and application developers have said they can't use
> <audio>
> and <video> because HTML lacks robust content protection. Without this
> functionality,
> they cannot move their apps to the web platform. Many consumer electronics
> are taking
> advantage of HTML for both video playback and user interfaces, yet their
> content
> protection solutions are typically tied to the device. We believe that
> working
> towards a common solution will reduce fragmentation between all HTML
> platforms.
>
> This has been raised in the Web & TV Interest Group [1] and mentioned in
> their
> feedback [2]. We believe this extension specification supports the counter
> proposal [3]
> for ISSUE-179 [4]. It demonstrates how to provide additional functionality
> to the
> HTML5 media element without requiring a generic mechanism like <param>.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David Dorwin, Google
> Adrian Bateman, Microsoft
> Mark Watson, Netflix
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2011/webtv/wiki/MPTF#Content_Protection
> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Dec/0120.html
> [2] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/issue-179_no_change
> [3] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/179
>
> On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:40 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > '{audio,video} require param child (or equivalent)'
> > The current status for this issue:
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/179
> > http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html#ISSUE-179
> >
> > So far, we two one Change Proposals submitted:
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/av_param
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/issue-179_no_change
> >
> > At this time the Chairs would also like to solicit additional Change
> > Proposals, in case anyone would like to advocate the status quo or a
> > different change than the specific ones in the existing Change Proposals.
> >
> > If no counter-proposals or alternate proposals are received by February
> 11th,
> > 2012, we proceed to evaluate the change proposals that we have received
> to
> > date.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Maciej
> >
>
>
>
>